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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe in public schools.

Full stop.

It actually seriously annoys me how many of my neighbors (CCMD, the named part) send their kids to private school. It’s like you have all the resources to build a strong community resource but your ego wins?!?[/quote]

I fully believe in public schools, too.  In fact, I teach in one.  I have taught there for almost 20 years.

And we send our children to private schools.  You can do both.  It doesn't compromise my value system at all.  Our children go to the privates they go to because those schools offer common value systems [b]that our local public schools (in the system where I teach) don't.[/b][/quote]
such as?[/quote]

POC here. We are in MCPS and my oldest did a year in public before we moved to private school (where my others all then started).

My kids’ private talks about diversity and skin color and it is integrated into the curriculum. They have teachers who are POC. They talk about values more explicitly.

I only went to public schools growing up, as did my DH. We got excellent public school educations. However, I was subjected to many racist remarks from classmates and teachers, many sexist remarks, and that was awful and difficult. Our overwhelmingly white local public school (in Whitman cluster) which (I’m told by my POC friends) awkwardly engages with race in the curriculum is not somewhere I want to send my kids.

We think the tuition is more than worth the value. But I also recognize that other families have kids who are thriving at our local public, so I understand that different people value these things differently.  [/quote]

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